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Apple has officially announced the 17 winners of the App Store Awards, a celebration that recognizes apps and games that best demonstrate outstanding innovation, design, and long-term cultural value.
Today’s announcement comes after last month’s reveal of the finalists; App Store editors have now chosen winners across major device categories.
According to Apple, this year’s awardees were selected as they demonstrated ‘technical ingenuity and lasting cultural impact.’ Editors reviewed each submission for delivering an extraordinary user experience, thoughtful design, and the ability to push the boundaries of a category. The awards span apps built for the iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch, Apple TV, and Apple Vision Pro.
The iPhone App of the Year was presented to popular daily planning and neurodiversity-friendly productivity tool Tiimo. The award on iPad went to Detail by Detail Technologies for extended video creation capabilities.
Essayist, the structured writing companion, earned Mac App of the Year, while Explore POV, for immersive perspective-driven exploration, took the prize for Apple Vision Pro App of the Year.
Among wearables, Strava claimed Apple Watch App of the Year, while HBO Max took home the Apple TV App of the Year award.
The 2011 top iPhone game was Pokémon TCG Pocket, showing an indication that the brand is still a total hit in the mobile gaming market. Meanwhile, the moody fishing adventure DREDGE won iPad Game of the Year, and Cyberpunk 2077: Ultimate Edition garnered Mac Game of the Year after renewed technical polish.
Most striking on Vision Pro was the atmospheric Porta Nubi, while the top honour from Apple Arcade went to the quirky WHAT THE CLASH?.
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Apple also recognised six titles for their ability to ‘drive meaningful change.’ This year’s winners of the Cultural Impact Award include the apps Art of Fauna, Chants of Sennaar, despelote, Be My Eyes, Focus Friend from Hank Green, and StoryGraph.
These apps span accessibility, mental health, storytelling, and social awareness. With a diverse class of winners, this year’s App Store Awards represent a period in which creators continued to push the boundaries of what apps can inspire, enable and transform.
